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Review: Night fever – designing club culture
on 24 July 2018Vitra Design Museum’s latest show immerses visitors in the world of nightclubs, to explore how design has shaped our nightlife
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'The only brief was to express our values': Grafton Architects on curating the Venice Biennale
on 29 May 2018Before the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale opened, we met with the curators, Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects, to discuss the practice's work, alongside the perils and pleasures of bringing the Biennale to fruition
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Brief Encounters
on 14 May 2018Two artists have taken up a year-long residency with Tunbridge Wells Museum to express the town’s history and identity in their work
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The reincarnation of London Bridge Station
on 28 March 2018Amid a five year, £1bn reconstruction project by Grimshaw Architects, London Bridge Station had to remain operational throughout. Finally unveiled, what has resulted is one of the most connective and innovative rail projects in the UK to date
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Oslo airport's new terminal is designed to be stress-free
on 7 February 2018In a new terminal for Oslo airport, Nordic — Office of Architecture has tried to create a completely stress-free travel experience
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Pleasure dome: Louvre Abu Dhabi by Jean Nouvel
on 13 December 2017Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi is the first building in a proposed new cultural quarter for the city, on land reclaimed from the sea. The building draws on traditional Arab architectural patterns, lighting and forms, but delivers an ambitious programme using 21st-century technologies, materials and sophistication
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Bob & Roberta Smith is turning the whole town of Folkestone into an art school
on 26 September 2017Patrick Brill — better known as the artist Bob and Roberta Smith — is on a mission to turn the seaside town of Folkestone into an art school for all, for its fourth Art Triennial and beyond. Inspired by the parlous state of the UK’s art education system, what lessons does he hope it will provide for the wider world?
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Review: Hello Robot: Design Between Human and Machine
on 27 June 2017A new travelling show, starting off at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, and called Hello Robot, looks at what our relationship with machines reveals about us
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New Scotland Yard by AHMM
on 27 June 2017AHMM has transformed a neoclassical fortress on London’s Embankment into an elegant, new building for New Scotland Yard and beacon for modern policing
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Fixing a hole: Fixperts profile
on 20 April 2017Every idea has its day, and Fixperts is an idea whose momentum has truly arrived. In 2016, the open-source fixing evangelists picked up a major Blueprint award, and trialled a whole new teaching programme around making for arts-starved UK schools. With the BBC recently launching its Big Life Fix, showing design professionals as they tackle real-life problems, it appears that fixing as a universal act of ingenuity and resistance – countering the culture of empty consumerism and built-in obsolescence – is going mainstream
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